Section 5.5. Summary

5.5. Summary

The SOAP messaging model is the basic framework that supports runtime Web services interoperability. SOAP, however, does not define the mechanisms to unambiguously address messages to Web services endpoints, and it does not provide explicit support for rich service interactions such as asynchronous or stateful interactions. The WS-Addressing specification discussed in this chapter defines an Infoset representation of the information required to address service endpoints (the endpoint reference) and provides the rules and mechanisms needed to use that information (as headers in a SOAP message envelope) to support a rich set of services.